It is ten years after Voyager’s return from the Delta Quad­rant, and the Fed­er­a­tion is in a cri­sis. The Federation’s main sup­pli­ers of dilithi­um crys­tals are dis­ap­pear­ing. Space and time have fold­ed around sev­er­al plan­ets, effec­tive­ly iso­lat­ing them from any con­tact with out­side worlds.